Serif Jurca

Serif Jurca (11 February 1891-18 August 1925) was a Slovene labor organizer and Italian Socialist Party activist from Postojna, Slovenia.

Biography
Serif Jurca was born in Adelsberg, Austria-Hungary (Postojna, Slovenia) on 11 February 1891 to a family of Catholic Slovene craftsmen, and he was doomed to live a life of poverty as a craftsman, like his father before him. He worked at a 2,165-worker artillery manufactory in Postojna for years, and he was dismayed when he saw that around 55% of his colleagues were conservative, allowing for themselves to be subjected to hard labor. Jurca became a labor organizer, joining the Italian Socialist Party and coordinating strikes against the Italian industrialists. Jurca stood up against Benito Mussolini's fascist regime, leading to him being beaten to death by policemen on 18 August 1925 during a bloody riot.